Release date: October 25, 2017
Subgenre: Dytopian fiction, Genetic engineering
About Evolution's Child:
The government is playing a dangerous game. Using human and animal
genomes to force evolutionary changes, they expand their project into
the real world, unleashing a pathogen containing an entirely new set of
complications for the world.
Seventeen year old Wren Shaffer is disenchanted with the world's decreasing values and the utterly fake nature of high society. Having reaped the consequences of speaking out once before, now she hides behind a pretty mask of lies, counting the days until her eighteenth birthday.
Coming back from vacation with her disinterested and self-involved mother, Wren is one of the 1% severely affected by the pathogen. Now, alone and increasingly afraid of the odd new feelings and abilities she can't ignore, she bonds with two of the lab's original subjects, who are determined to save her not only from her first evolution, but from her life of fake smiles and pretty pictures as well.
But the scientists are still watching and not all of the subjects are fit for society. It’s a race against time and a fight for survival and if Wren or one of her new soul-mates die, the other two won't be far behind.
Content Warning: Some explicit language and graphic violence.
Seventeen year old Wren Shaffer is disenchanted with the world's decreasing values and the utterly fake nature of high society. Having reaped the consequences of speaking out once before, now she hides behind a pretty mask of lies, counting the days until her eighteenth birthday.
Coming back from vacation with her disinterested and self-involved mother, Wren is one of the 1% severely affected by the pathogen. Now, alone and increasingly afraid of the odd new feelings and abilities she can't ignore, she bonds with two of the lab's original subjects, who are determined to save her not only from her first evolution, but from her life of fake smiles and pretty pictures as well.
But the scientists are still watching and not all of the subjects are fit for society. It’s a race against time and a fight for survival and if Wren or one of her new soul-mates die, the other two won't be far behind.
Content Warning: Some explicit language and graphic violence.
Excerpt:
“Can I help you?” she asked calmly, not even trying to free his
grasp in her haste.
“You’re one of them aren’t you?” he hissed, his brown eyes sparking
with a maniacal light.
“I’m sorry?” Wren lowered her voice and looked at him more closely.
“Who are you?” she asked. There was a sharp pinch in her arm,
followed by a stinging pain and Wren looked to see that something
in his hand had cut a small thin line across her skin. She watched
as several tiny bubbles formed and then stilled. Stunned, she
pulled her arm from his tight grip and was surprised when she
needed to use some of her new found strength to manage it. Alarmed
now, she pushed against the boy’s chest and made him stumble before
righting himself once more, his intense gaze still locked to her
own.
“What’s going on?” Jake asked as he and Jayden finally pushed
through the thinning horde.
Wren didn’t move her eyes from the boy, not sure what she was
feeling but knowing something was horribly wrong. “He isn’t right,”
she whispered for their ears alone, making Jayden smoothly step
between them as Jake moved closer to the kid, who was now glaring
at all three of them, the fire in his eyes brighter and hotter than
it had been.
“Who are you?” Jake asked, making the youth turn his head to focus
on the tall young man, easily twice his weight and looking serious
and intimidating in all black with a scowl marring his perfect
features.
“You’ll all die you know,” he rasped. “Every one of you… you
shouldn’t be here.” With those damning words the boy turned to Wren
and slashed out at her with something she couldn’t see, nimbly
dodging past Jake and Jayden to reach her.
“Especially you,” the sinister voice turned harder and his eyes
grew bright with hate and malice as he started laughing, ducking
under and around the two sets of arms trying to discreetly catch
him.
“You’re worse than they are… you’ll be worse than them all!” with
those final malevolent words, the boy twisted so quickly that they
all missed his advance, slashing low and inside of her defense,
squarely catching her right side just above the hip. She gasped and
jumped back at the sharp sting of pain that quickly started to burn
as it moved through her. Too distracted to see where the little
demon had gone, but knowing he had left by the guy’s low curses and
the sense of determined pursuit from Jake, Wren sat down abruptly,
feeling waves of nausea and dizziness rushing through her and
adding to the pain that continued to escalate in its intensity.
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About Dean Rencraft:
Dean Rencraft is an eclectic and enthusiastic reader of all genres
and a new Author of Epic fantasy/fantasy, appropriate for both teens
and adults. Born in the beautiful Black Hills, Dean has traveled
extensively and now, as a parent with grown children, enjoys spending
time reading, researching, camping and hiking. Legally blind and a long
term victim of APS, writing is now the Author's greatest joy and main
pursuit, escaping into the world of Fantasy and using the proceeds for
experimental treatments and technology.
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